Middle-earth Hijacks Air New Zealand

The second installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy arrives in theaters on December 13, and Air New Zealand is ramping up their campaign to import as many tourists as possible to discover "Middle-earth" with a new in-flight video that has ordinary people transforming into characters from the J.R.R. Tolkien saga. Watch the Just Another Day in Middle-earth video!

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The amusing video (featuring Dean O'Gorman who plays the dwarf Fili, and the voice of Sylvester McCoy, who plays Radagast) is a follow-up to last year's An Unexpected Briefing in-flight safety video that recruited the characters of The Hobbit, from Gandalf and Gollum to Peter Jackson himself, to demonstrate the safety steps of Air New Zealand. Watch below: